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Changed my layout and my default icon (SORRY CATHY I GOT REALLY SICK OF THAT RED HOUSE ALL THE FUCKING TIME DON'T HATE ME I KNOW IT IS CONFUSING BUT YOU WILL ADAPT SOMEHOW). Also changed my journal title for the first time since HAVING this journal, largely because... er, well. Because while "angelheaded hipsters" was and is one of my favorite Ginsbergian turns-of-phrase, I am not actually a hipster? At least not according the the current definition. I'd be more accurately described as "hippie," and I've wanted to screw around with my journal title for ages. It will probably change again shortly, once I scroll through the Inspiration Meme for the umpteenth time, but for right now it's a line from the e.e. cummings poem here's to opening and upward.

In other news, [livejournal.com profile] onthecount and I had a conversation last night about a Wizard of Oz AU and she...she drew DOROTHY COBB, oh, it is so glorious, and several other EQUALLY GLORIOUS THINGS (Tin Man Arthur! Scarecrow Eames! oh god really just click that link).

Furthermore, if anyone still needs proof that I am apparently Larry David, here is an actual conversation from the Chanukah brunch my family did this morning to make up for the one that got canceled due to blizzard:

My Aunt: Here, have some fruit.
My Father: Thanks.
My Aunt: Why aren't you taking any mango? Take some mango.
My Father: No, I don't like mango.
My Aunt: Of course you like mango. Everyone likes mango. Have you ever even tried mango?
My Father: Yes, I've tried it. I don't like it.
My Aunt: YES YOU DO, EVERYONE LIKES MANGO. EAT THE GODDAMN MANGO.
My Father: I DON'T LIKE MANGO.
My Aunt: You're probably mixing it up with something else. Where did you have it--in a smoothie? On a salad? Because you have to just try it plain to--
My Father: I've had it in smoothies and in salads and plain, I don't like it, I feel like I'm in Green Eggs & motherfucking Ham, I AM NOT EATING THE MANGO.
My Aunt: YOU MUST HAVE BEEN EATING SOMETHING ELSE, MANGO IS GOOD NO MATTER HOW YOU PREPARE IT.
My Father: The only time I've ever liked it was when I had some of those dried slices.
My Aunt: Oh. I don't like it like that.
Everyone: DSJFDSJFSDHJFKHDSFJKDSFHKDSJ.

Okay AND NOW I AM WRITING THINGS, BECAUSE I KNOW ALL I DO LATELY IS POST ABOUT HOW MY CRAZY FAMILY IS CRAZY, BUT IN MY DEFENSE...THEY ARE CRAZY. But my writing mojo is baaaaaaaaack, THERE WILL BE FIC OF SOME KIND BY THE END OF THE WEEKEND I SWEAR. My holiday_heist thinger went up yesterday but it was, let's be honest, largely an excuse to make it widely known that my people, the Jews, eat Chinese food on Christmas. BUT I COULD HAVE JUST LINKED YOU TO THIS VIDEO:



:DDD

ETA: OH ALSO, in an attempt to aid in the fake-naming of my brothers, I asked the 19 year old what he would pick as a superhero name. He considered deeply and then, dnfjsdfndsf oh my god, said MUTATION, and when I asked him why he said, very seriously, "Because it's a name of ambiguous morality. I could be caught in the epic internal struggle of good and evil! THINK OF HOW MANY COMIC BOOKS THAT WOULD SELL."

I reminded him that it was a theoretical exercise, but he would not be swayed. What even is my life.

Date: 2010-12-11 07:36 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] chaoticallyclev.livejournal.com
I have definitely had that mango conversation, and several others like it, both with my family and with RANDOM PEOPLE. Like at work, when the chefs were like, Oh, how do you like this stuff? Me: I don't eat curry. Chefs: well, ho do you know if you haven't tried it? Me: My dad cooks something with curry in it at least 20 times a year, and he makes me try it at least half of that time, and I don't like curry. No one in my family besides my dad likes curry. It's kinf of like thanksgiving when my mom cooks turkey and then, some point during the meal, one of us will mention how we aren't that fond of turkey and she goes WHAT? I thought that was the one person who isn't here right now? Everyone: NO. SHE ACTUALLY LIKES TURKEY. NO ONE ELSE LIKES TURKEY. Mom: Well, I bought another one as well and it's in the freezer.

Actually, speaking of families, we had this fantastic day of "let's try to make me want to cry/hide in a hole an never come out" through the course of sex jokes. Not just general, haha, joking, but as it relates to relationships in my family. My mother started this on the phone with my father when i was in the car and -- it was uncomfortable. But not as uncomfortable as her repeating it to both of my sisters on seperate occasions. Then my oldest sister decided to share how my other sister's fiance, while drunk last night, said something about how little asians inside of everyone will be the future, pointed to Thing 2 and went, she's already had a little asian in her. WHICH I DID NOT NEED TO HAVE STATED. This stroy was shared, repeated, and joked about EIGHT MORE TIMES THAT DAY. And then when Thing 1 was going upstairs to get something, she forgot what she was saying, so she was gesturing with her hand in this weird up down motion with her hand opening at the top when she was done. WHich immediately lead to everyone else at the table mimicking this and laughing, my mom adding that "you don't have a penis!", and at this point my dad is pretty much crying with laughter. so. that was friday. before the drinking and the card games til 2 am.

...Mutation? I thought he was just talkling about a power for a second there. the though process is awesome though.

Date: 2010-12-11 07:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gyzym.livejournal.com
AHAHAHAHA MY MOTHER DOES THAT ALL THE TIME. She's like "I made sweet potatoes for Thanksgiving" and we're like...but we don't...like....those....

OH MY GOD AUGH I AM SO SORRY. My parents make sex jokes ALL THE TIME, because they like the traumatized look it produces on our faces.

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